Technological advancements have made it possible to develop high-end, enterprise-grade custom mobile apps that are seamlessly aligned with existing processes in days or weeks and not months or years. And by partnering with cutting-edge technology platforms like HokuApps, mobile apps can be developed at 10x speed to help companies meet their business goals that much faster. The first step of the process is automated (90%), which involves choosing from the right business module, the right UI design from the design studio and adding technology components via a drag and drop approach to app development; while the second step involves customization of the mobile apps (10%) to suit a business’s unique hierarchical requirements – and the app is ready for deployment.

If you’re wondering whether custom mobile application development is really worth it, here are twelve reasons your company most definitely needs a customized business app:

#1 – Employees Are Using Mobile Apps Anyway: Data shows a continuous increase in time spent on smartphones. A report by Flurry Analytics says that US adults spent 5 hours per day on these devices. Interestingly, browser time has shown a steady decline, which was reported at a mere 8% of the total time spent on smartphones. This translates to a steady increase in app use. What does this mean for enterprises? Employees are definitely using their smartphones and third-party apps to coordinate with colleagues, stay connected with their teams, communicate with clients, schedule work and get things done faster.

#2 – Customers Are Increasingly Using Mobile Apps to Make Purchases: In 2015 and 2016, the growth of e-commerce grabbed headlines. Through 2017, there has been a marked increase in m-commerce (people using their mobile phones to shop). In North America, m-commerce surged by 13% year-on-year and almost 70% of the total were in-app sales, says a report published by Criteo. And, this trend is expected to grow. If your company doesn’t have a customer-centric custom mobile app, it’s losing out on sales. Worse still, your competitors are grabbing such opportunities, not only making sales grow but also earning customer loyalty, while you’re missing in action.

#3 – Customers Are Making Purchase Decisions Using Their Cellphones: Even those customers who don’t use apps to make purchases are increasingly using their smartphones to make purchase decisions. Customers have become more discerning today and do their research thoroughly before buying anything. In fact, they could be using their phones to check for more information even while standing inside your store! According to an article by the CEO of OuterBox, as many as 80% of shoppers used their cellphones inside brick and mortar stores to check product reviews and compare prices before making a purchase! Can your company afford to lose customers even after they’ve walked into your store?

#4 – Improves Customer Relationship: With a custom mobile app, your company can stay connected with customers at all times. They can easily get in touch with you to ask questions about your products or services. Your company can send notifications regarding any upcoming event or ongoing sale to boost sales.

#5 – Provides Valuable Data: A mobile app will generate data about employee productivity, online sales, areas of customer complaints, etc. A company can even conduct surveys to understand employee and/or customer satisfaction levels or even critical inputs like which specific features of your offering are most loved by customers.

Furthermore, the HokuApps platform builds custom enterprise mobility solutions where all solutions built have a mobile view and a web backend of real-time data and analytics. This enterprise administration backend enables the in-house teams to manage and administer the business solution and includes a granular reporting engine and dashboards, fully configurable and customizable user administration for any organizational hierarchy.

Customized business apps allow you to send personalized updates related to your products and services to your existing customers in real-time based on information collected about their behavior. Additionally, it allows you to access client details and receive feedback, which can be leveraged to improve long-term customer relationships

#6 – Improves Efficiency: Enterprise apps are developed to meet the specific needs of the business. They are designed to make processes highly streamlined and tasks easier to accomplish. According to the results of a survey published by FileMaker, 81% of respondents mentioned that custom mobile apps reduced inefficient tasks. Moreover, a custom mobile app provides a real-time view of projects and your team’s performance.

#7 – Increases Productivity: The State of Custom App Report says that 74% of respondents reported an increase in team productivity. As tasks become easier to accomplish, employee productivity increases, and this improves the morale of workers. The platform features an inbuilt communication framework that can be incorporated into any solution built on the platform. The engine enables real-time business chat and a notification framework, which are an essential part of any enterprise mobility solution to enhance collaboration among employees and departments.

#8 – Reduces Error: Since apps can be used anytime and from anywhere, employees can make updates in real-time, reducing the scope of error. Moreover, they can upload documents in support of their updates which reduces paperwork and the burden of storage and retrieval. For instance, a sales executive can update expenses as they are incurred and upload the receipt. Once approved, the reimbursement can be transferred using the app itself.

#9 – Perfect Fit for Your Unique Needs: Why bother creating your own when you can buy an off-the-shelf application? Readymade apps may offer some benefits but would probably not have all the features required to ensure your processes run smoothly. Since they are not built for your company, they will not be able to cater to your unique requirements. Also, what happens when your company expands? Custom mobile apps can be upgraded and enhanced with just the right functionalities and features based on a business’s unique ecosystem.

#10 – High ROI: Companies often wonder whether a mobility solution will yield sufficient returns to justify the budget needed for custom mobile application development? A mobility strategy will unleash a range of benefits for your company. And, creating a custom mobile app does not necessarily mean a large investment is needed. High-end, enterprise-grade custom apps can be built using an automated mobile application development platform (MADP) like HokuApps. In other words, automation equals huge savings and reliability. The HokuApps MADP has hundreds of reusable technology components and a company can choose the ones that align the best with their business processes.

#11 – Integrates with Existing Software: A custom mobile app developed on a MADP can be easily integrated with the software being used by your company. If you have a CRM in place, you need a MADP with inbuilt connectors to that CRM. Third-party apps will not be able to function smoothly with your existing ERP or CRM software without proper integration. HokuApps platform has inbuilt connectors to over 500 systems. These connectors instantly work with various third-party software, internal systems and legacy software. This enables any solution built on the platform to automatically connect to any/all unique systems that a business might have. HokuApps does not need to build new connections for each system that a business might have (unlike traditional app development).

#12 – Ease of Planning and Management: With data being available on multiple parameters, companies can gain meaningful insight and can create plans in a more informed way. Moreover, with a real-time granular reporting engine on employee accomplishments through the day, project management becomes easier even while you’re traveling.

A custom mobile app can go a long way in the brand building. And, with technology solutions that are cross-platform, reliable, affordable, and secure – it always pays to stay ahead of your competitors. Experience all this and more with HokuApps – your technology partner.

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Mobile apps offer huge benefits to companies, ranging from improved operational efficiency to increased employee productivity and higher customer engagement. They also play a critical role in brand building and contributes to competitive differentiation. Enterprise mobile app development companies like HokuApps can help bring in the change businesses require with custom applications that are reliable, secure, scalable and are developed at 10x speed.

Trends in Mobility Adoption

Despite the numerous benefits of mobility, there are far too many companies that feel apprehensive about a digital transformation of their processes. These companies end up leveraging only a very small fraction of the benefits offered by smartphones today. As many as 38% of companies use only basic mobility features like email and calendar, according to a survey of US and UK firms conducted by Sapio Research in 2017.

These companies don’t even encourage their workforce to use their own devices for such tools. The study goes on to mention that such companies have 15% lower employee productivity and 29% lower profitability than those enterprises that have welcomed mobility adoption.

Even within enterprises that have adopted more advanced mobility capabilities, the use of such solutions is limited to certain verticals of the company. Among the leading verticals that have witnessed mobility adoption are human resource management, marketing and sales, accounting and customer service, says a report published by CiteSeerx, a digital library of scientific literature.

The report goes on to cite the factors restricting the growth of mobility adoption as:

• Costs associated with customized mobile app development
• Concerns related to the disruption of legacy systems

What such companies are not aware of is that both these factors can be addressed by using a trusted Mobile Application Development Platform, such as that offered by HokuApps.

What is a Mobile Application Development Platform?

A mobile application development platform, or MADP platform, refers to a comprehensive set of technology solutions that facilitate the creation of mobile apps in a highly cost-effective and streamlined manner.

MADP platforms represent a more advanced path over developing a mobile app from scratch (which can be extremely expensive and time-consuming) and using a predeveloped, third-party mobile app (off-the-shelf apps which may not have all the desired features to support your unique business processes). A cutting-edge MADP offers a variety of pre-configured modules, pre-built technology components and a design studio. The appropriate options can be selected according to your desired features or functionalities and made into applications with pre-built connectors, and then customize it to suit your unique business ecosystem.

Why Choose HokuApps MADP Over Traditional App Development?

HokuApps offers an automated mobile application development platform that can rapidly develop and deploy custom mobile apps on different devices while ensuring smooth integration with legacy and internal systems.

It does so with a cutting-edge technology platform that features a 90-10 app development approach. 90% of the app development is automated, which includes integration, via a drag and drop approach, of pre-configured business modules with pre-connected technology components like maps, payments, QR Code scanning, GPS tracking and such, and UI designs from a design studio. This increases apps development speed by 10 times in comparison to traditional app development which entails hand-coding each app from scratch. The apps are then customized to suit the business’s unique hierarchical requirements.

Apps are automatically developed for iOS, Android and the Web, and inbuilt tools include a communication framework (chat and notifications), enterprise-grade security, a scalable infrastructure and an enterprise admin backend for in-house teams to manage and administer the business solution and includes a granular reporting engine and dashboards, fully configurable and customizable user administration for any organizational hierarchy.

The HokuApps’ automated platform offers several advantages over traditional app development:

• Short time-to-market – 6-8 weeks on an average
• Fully customizable mobile app development
• Minimal coding required
• Cross-platform app development, i.e., iOS, Android and the Web
• Stunning UI and logic-driven UX
• Inbuilt enterprise admin backend for advanced data collation and granular reporting
• Affordability
• Security features at all levels
• A communication framework with chat and notifications
• A scalable infrastructure

The best part of using HokuApps’ MADP is that you can see the effects of your choices within days or weeks, as this doesn’t involve coding from scratch. If you decide against a particular look or feature, you can change it instantly and without any cascading negative consequences. HokuApps accelerates your digital transformation journey and enables you to start reaping benefits from your mobility strategy much sooner.

With HokuApps, you don’t need to wait months to begin achieving your business goals, whether it’s to increase revenue by…

• improving sales
• launch new offerings
• improving customer engagement
• improving employee communication
• enhancing brand awareness

Most importantly, using HokuApps Enterprise Mobile Application Development Platform means companies can continue focusing on their core activities, without having to allocate a huge amount of time and resources to communicating and coordinating with app development company to get the perfect solution developed.

Your app is created in a highly secure environment as HokuApps follows industry-leading best practices in security by encrypting all communication and keeping all critical data behind enterprise-grade firewalls.

How Does HokuApps’ Mobile Application Development Platform Work?

HokuApps Enterprise Mobile Application Development Platform (MADP) is cutting-edge, future-proof, scalable, secure, affordable and more. Based on an automated approach, businesses can choose the appropriate business module, choose the appropriate pre-built technology components that the app needs to feature, choose the best design for your UX, drag and drop these said features – and the app is ready for customization based on organizational hierarchy. The result is highly customized business apps that work on iOS, Android and the Web, created at 10x speed (in comparison to traditional app development where apps require coding from scratch).

HokuApps’ MADP covers a wide range of use cases, with well-established business process workflows and inbuilt best practices. Analysts can select workflow-specific solutions to instantly deploy apps. There is a highly user-friendly dashboard, and powerful tools available, providing different levels of user access, powerful reporting, and unified communication.

The platform is extremely flexible and scalable, easily adapting the mobile app to a company’s unique ecosystem and providing smart mobile solutions for even the most complex workflows. Businesses that have legacy systems don’t need to fret over disruption to existing processes. The platform offers built-in connectors for smooth integration with the CRM and ERP systems that your company may already be using.

HokuApps Enterprise Mobile Application Development Platform is capable of performing on a variety of:

• operating systems (Desktop)
• multiple devices
• user groups (OS platforms)
• and networks

…not just during the development stage, but post-deployment, i.e, the entire lifecycle of the mobile app.

Although the MADP platform creates extremely user-friendly apps, the HokuApps team is available for any consultation that your company may require. HokuApps takes only days or weeks to convert your idea into a fully-functional custom mobile app.

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Mobile apps are not only being used to make life convenient but are playing an increasingly critical role in meeting business goals across every sector. The penetration of smartphones and such devices has prompted organizations to embrace enterprise mobile apps to facilitate communication, coordination and the achievement of almost every task on-the-go.

Two Options for Business Mobile Apps

Mobility has become a vital part of business strategy for good reason. Enterprise mobile apps can potentially drive competitive advantages like:

• Immediate access to tools and information needed to complete tasks on-the-go
• Increase in employee productivity
• Streamline tasks across distributed teams
• Lower overhead and operational costs
• Real-time coordination and reporting
• Real-time contact with customers
• Timely updates to stakeholders
• Brand building

Looking at the other side of the coin, companies that haven’t invested in mobile apps find themselves at a “clear disadvantage,” says a blog post by Adobe. The major reasons for the disadvantage are less-efficient operations, seeming outdated as compared to rivals and missing out on opportunities.

So, if you’ve decided that your business needs to reap the many advantages of having a mobile app, it’s time to make a choice between off-the-shelf apps and custom mobile app development.

Pros and Cons of Off-the-Shelf Mobile Apps

Off-the-shelf mobile apps are pre-developed and can be installed in almost no time. Mostly, these are simple to use and can help companies get off the ground with mobility. Many of the available off-the-shelf apps are cost-effective and offer a free trial period, allowing companies to test them before making a purchase. These factors drive the major appeal of deploying ready-made solutions.

While off-the-shelf apps initially sound like an attractive option, they come with severe limitations. Being pre-developed, they’re rarely a seamless fit for existing business processes. You may need to alter your processes (yes, the change is going to impact big-time) to match its pre-existing features.

Off-the-shelf apps are developed keeping in mind different types of organizations and are designed for a wide range of uses. This means that you may use only a small percentage of the app while paying for the complete range of features, which in business terms is a ‘loss’.

Features offered by these off-the-shelf solutions are developed for standard needs. There may be some unique needs of your company that would remain unmet. This might prompt a company to invest further in other solutions. Moreover, such solutions are typically designed for a limited number of users and technologies. For larger companies or those that operate in a niche segment, off-the-shelf mobile apps can prove to be highly restrictive.

In the long run, the burden of ongoing license fees may wipe out the initial cost advantage. Despite the cost incurred, the business does not get to own the app or have complete control over it. Security is a major concern when using off-the-shelf mobile apps.

Moreover, the app that you choose would be easily available to your competitions, which means that it wouldn’t offer your company the competitive edge that you had initially envisioned.

Why Most Businesses Prefer Custom Mobile App Development

Custom mobile app development may seem more time consuming and costlier than off-the-shelf solutions. However, companies opt for custom development to leverage the full gamut of benefits (including some hidden benefits) that mobile apps can offer.

Experts Make Recommendations

Engaging a company for custom app development means partnering with a team of experts who have vast experience in implementing mobile strategies across different business sectors. Such a team would be able to make recommendations to enhance the utility of the app. HokuApps has experts who understand the dynamics of diverse industries and businesses. The team can help finetune your mobile strategy, streamline this with your existing business processes and design app features to meet your unique business goals with custom technology solutions.

Meets All Your Business Requirements

Custom mobile app development services offer the highest degree of flexibility. It can cater to all your business processes, taking into account the unique requirements of each. They are developed keeping in mind specific users, the tasks they need to fulfill, and the results needed to be achieved while incorporating larger business goals.

Not Restrictive

Custom mobile apps are highly scalable because of the technology platform’s infrastructure framework. Not only does this ensure that all your business requirements are met, but they can be scaled up for as many users as your business needs and be compatible with different technologies. They can be expanded or amended to incorporate changing demands of your business or industry to accommodate changes in user behavior. Therefore, mobile apps have a longer shelf life and can continue to contribute towards the achievement of your business goals for years to come.

Short Time-to-Market

HokuApps’ custom mobile app development platform is an automated technology platform that creates mobile apps with pre-configured business modules, pre-built technology components, a design studio and inbuilt connectors to develop cross-platform apps. The mobile apps are then customized to suit a business’s unique ecosystem. This keeps the app development time short while creating secure, feature-loaded solutions at affordable costs.

Compatibility

Custom mobile app development not only takes into account the needs of different users and processes, but also software that your business may already be using or any technology that may be integral to your organization. This revolutionary technology platform automatically creates apps for iOS, Android and the Web.

Personalized User Experience

Custom mobile app development incorporates every form of customization. This extends beyond unique business processes and goes into personalization of UX. Offering a personalized user experience fosters employee and customer engagement with the app and, therefore, your brand. Increased engagement can boost employee retention and garner customer loyalty.

App and Data Security

Businesses across the globe spend billions of dollars to protect their data. Most businesses choose custom mobile app development services over off-the-shelf solutions to avoid putting their data at risk. When developing custom mobile apps, necessary security measures are taken, based on your unique business processes and needs. In comparison to traditional app development or off-the-shelf apps, custom mobile apps do not need to code security features. The platform incorporates best-in-class security features automatically.

Support

One of the major advantages of custom mobile app development services is the support offered. At HokuApps, we offer technical support through the lifecycle of the app. The team is readily accessible if new app features are required as your business expands.

Best of Both Worlds with HokuApps

Both off-the-shelf and custom solutions have certain advantages. However, businesses have unique requirements and a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach may not be the best choice. HokuApps not only specializes in custom mobile app development but offers fully-featured app development on an automated process that expedites the deployment of mobile solutions by 10 times (faster than traditional mobile app development).

Save time by leveraging on-demand enterprise apps on HokuApps mobile application development platform, incorporating well-established business process workflows and offering solutions that follow industry-best practices. And, get customizable solutions for your unique business needs with inbuilt enterprise administration dashboard and an inbuilt communication framework add business-value across all processes.

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You might have already made mobile app development as an indispensable part of your business strategy.

After all, it is beyond any doubt now that a mobile application can help you stay connected with your customers and magnify your business results.

But wait!

Is your thinking of settling with an off-the-shelf application?

The actual result can be exactly the opposite of what you probably expect!

Off-the-shelf solutions seem to be a lucrative option for their low purchase cost and fast deployment, but they have major drawbacks.

Being ready-made solutions, commercial off-the-shelf products are designed to cater to the common needs of multiple businesses.

It means you might end up paying for app features that you don’t want and still have several of your business requirements unfulfilled!

In a worst-case scenario, you might have to make additional investments from time to time so as to perform modifications within the off-the-shelf app and keep it relevant to your future business needs.

Want to avoid all these problems?

You need to opt for a technology platform that not only develops and deploys technology that reflects your app idea but can quickly accommodate changes every time your business modifies its focus in the market.

This is where a custom mobile app development company like HokuApps, who have automated their process, can come to your rescue.

Why a Custom App?

At HokuApps, we often face this question from our clients when we suggest them the same.

The answer, however, is pretty simple…

Your business is unique and so should be your mobile app!

Your enterprise is constantly operating under changing market trends and consumer demands. Only a well-crafted custom mobile app development solution can cater exclusively to your specific business needs and concerns and help to gain a competitive edge.

Creating custom apps, which constantly balance between the commercial needs and long-term growth of your business, is a creative challenge.

If you think that all companies can pull off that task, you are quite mistaken!

While multiple app development companies talk about building stunning custom apps, they often leave a gap between the expectations of the business owner and the final output.

Hence, you need to work with a mobile app development company that takes time to learn about your business model and use the right tools and frameworks to provide solutions that deliver guaranteed market success.

How do you know which custom mobile app development company is the right fit for your business?

The answer lies in asking the right questions.

Read on!

4 Question to Ask Before Selecting Any Custom Mobile App Development Company

Evaluating the capabilities of the vendor before going into the actual app development phase can actually save a lot of your productive time and money.

Make sure that you start with these probing questions which will help you find the right custom mobile app development partner:

Do They Understand Your Business Needs Like You Do?

The app development company selected by you should have the ability to see your app idea and business requirements from your lens. If you and the company view your app requirements differently, it will eventually lead to long-term conflicts and you may end up with an app that does not work as expected.

The app development company needs to understand that your business requirements might evolve at a rapid pace. Hence, they would try to come up with custom-yet-pragmatic solutions that can offer business opportunities even in an ever-changing market environment.

If the chosen company providing custom mobile application development has a good idea of your business situation, it will continually strive to align your app idea with the strategic objectives of your business.

It can thus drive your app idea toward the right direction, provide it with appealing shape and design, and bring to life a scalable app that is fine-tuned to the specifics of your business.

Do They Customize Apps Keeping Business Vision in Mind?

Most of the mobile app development companies look at their clients’ requirements as projects and end up approaching app customization in a very generic way.

However, best custom mobile app development partners like HokuApps are always aware of the fact that your mobile app is actually a potential investment for your business, which can provide it with strong brand identity, more consumers and increased revenue.

The right app development company, therefore, will initiate with the analysis of your competitive landscape and learn about your workflow challenges carefully. This will help them to handcraft custom user administration to suit organizational hierarchy and incorporate features and functionalities within the app that are future-ready.

Do They Know What Your App Users Want?

When it comes to designing the User Experience (UX), it goes far beyond just good graphics.

It is more about creating a pleasurable and satisfying experience of the user, so that they can, both visually and emotionally, connect to the app.

Therefore, just a beautiful and appealing User Interface (UI) will not do. Your custom mobile app development team need to start with the evaluation of what your customers want from your app and work backwards to incorporate the right technology.

The result of such initiative can be an app with a human-centric design that can create disruption in the market and help your business stand out from the crowd.

Do They Believe in Collaboration?

In order to develop a custom app absolutely tailored to your business needs, the mobile app development company needs to listen to your app requirements with patience. They can, thus, help you arrive its technical specifications that your potential customers will find to be useful.

The right mobile app partner will involve you throughout the app development lifecycle and help you review the progress by conducting periodic meetings.

You can then be sure to get an agile custom app that can apply its advanced technology capabilities to help your business stay ahead in current market conditions.

Let Us Get You the Custom App That Your Business Needs

At HokuApps, we believe in building custom mobile apps with advanced capabilities which can improve the app experience of your users and streamline your workflows. Hence, we provide an easy-to-use custom Mobile App Development Platform (MADP), helping you get app solutions that are business-specific and extensively customized to suit your business’s unique architecture.

HokuApps MADP is a low-code platform that creates apps on an automated platform. This automated process helps us create highly reliable apps with short time-to-market with a visual based app development process, which keeps the costs of app development very affordable.

HokuApps’ automated process – the first step is choosing the right pre-configured business module. While most competitors consider this the majority of their app development process, our process starts at this juncture. Technology components are integrated into the module using an in-built connector which has already been coded to more than 500 API options. This keeps the requirement of coding (and testing) at this juncture to zero, thus increasing the time-to-market by 10 times. Post this stage, apps are customized according to user administration for your business’s particular hierarchy, keeping in mind industry-best app development practices.

The alternative is to create apps on a traditional platform, which entails coding of each app from scratch. The result is extended time-to-market and more often than not, overshooting the budget.

Our expert team will constantly work with you to visualize your app idea and extend their support from development to deployment and beyond. They have a result-driven approach to app development, which enables them to deliver pixel-perfect app design and exceptional UX, created within design framework suggested by Apple and Google.

As a result, you can take home market-ready and high-performance technology, which are reliable, secure, scalable and affordable.

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In the competitive scenario of today, businesses must adapt in order to move forward and stay on top of things. Additionally, the influx of various new forms of technology has created a highly volatile environment, one that is changing constantly and at an unprecedented rate. With apps making the lives of people easier, and consequently giving impetus to businesses at relatively low costs; the playing field seems to have become more or less level.

It is for all the above reasons that business owners such as yourselves are seriously looking to invest in mobile application development platforms. This, however, is not a very easy task, as mobile apps do present an investment on your part. Additionally, there are several factors that must be looked into with great scrutiny, which calls for a heavy investment of time as well.

And although there are umpteen ways in which to approach your own enterprise app development project, a commonly agreed upon ‘first’, would be to keep track of the major trends, both present, as well as upcoming.

Here are 5 trends that are influencing the enterprise mobile application development industry in 2018:

On-Demand Custom Mobile Apps

One of the greatest utilities of mobile application development platforms is that of high user convenience. Over the past 5-6 years, the services industry has slowly and steadily, sunk its roots into mobile app development, through highly functional on-demand apps. These apps include online shopping (clothes, groceries, etc.), transport services, and more. The trend of on-demand apps is still rising, with more and more industries are embracing its smart long-term benefits. As a business owner, you must consider leveraging the huge business potential that on-demand apps bring to the table, especially if you work in any one of the industries that are directly relevant to them.

A new and cutting-edge solution that is paving the way forward is low-code mobile app development platforms. On the HokuApps platform, apps are created by on an automated platform that comes equipped with pre-configured business modules and pre-connected technology components. Components are the integrated to business modules via a ‘drag and drop’ method to create apps at rapid speed. This nullifies the need for hand-coding from scratch as traditional app development requires. Thus, increases time-to-market by 10 times. The app is then customized to suit an organisation’s hierarchical architecture to deliver highly customized technology solutions.

Accelerated Mobility

Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is a website publishing tool, that was initially launched in 2015. This open-source library-based initiative offers a highly lucrative business proposition to all industries. The reason for this is that this technology is built to enhance the loading time of pages for mobile sites, something that is known to boost user engagement by reducing bounce rate, and enhancing CTR, rankings, etc. This technology is applicable to all types of applications, thus making it a prudent choice for your mobile application development project.

Head in the Clouds

Cloud-based computing has been around the block a couple of times now and has been established as a credible data storage function. Applications of Cloud computing to mobile apps, helps users to better manage the storage of large chunks of memory. This also unburdens the performance of the users’ devices, by storing physical memory in the online space, rather than in the device itself. As a business owner, you must ensure that your mobile app development platform makes room for Cloud integration, thus helping you leverage its features to boost app performance, as well as user satisfaction.

The IoT (Internet of Things)

The wave of IoT (Internet of Things) technologies has spread on a global scale and is estimated to cross 600 billion USD by 2021. One of the major offshoots of this trend is that of wearable smart technology devices – mainly comprising watches. These devices (aptly named smartwatches) can do a lot more than simply telling you the time, with features such as caller ID and notification display, voice commands, etc. Smartwatches act as extended individual utilities for mobile phones, and can therefore by extension, also do the same for mobile apps. Wearable devices are all set to become a mainstream integrated component for mobile app development platforms.

Experience The New Real with HokuApps

Virtual, and augmented reality – although currently emerging trends – is set to become a part of mainstream technology consumption in the coming years. The implications in terms of user experience, innovative concepts, and overall profitability for businesses are quite staggering. Being comparatively new, these technologies currently require large capital investment with traditional mobile app development technology. With growing demand and subsequent upscaling of production, however; AR and VR will come within the reach of more and more businesses. HokuApps offers all these ‘trends’ as a part of its mobile app development solutions.

The main reason for this is that the HokuApps platform is an automated one, where 90% of the process is pre-configured with business modules and pre-built technology modules like GPS, IoT, maps etc. that are pre-coded to an in-built connector with more than 500 connection options. The remaining 10% is the part where the app is customized to suits a business’s unique hierarchy. The result is on-demand mobile apps that are cross-platform, affordable, reliable, and includes features like secure chat, enterprise administration backend with a granular reporting engine and security at every level.

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You first need to lay a foundation with a customized database and wireframe, include third-party APIs for the wiring job and decorate the interior with expressive UI & UX design.

Each of these development processes is critical to building an app.

If not done properly, flaws would surface in form of bugs, and affect the integrity and functionality of the app. Your job, however, does not come to an end when the house is built. You need to maintain it too.

Same goes for a mobile app.

Right development procedure and constant maintenance can keep a business app market-relevant and attractive to the users.

So, one common question that plagues the corporations seeking an enterprise-level app is-

“How much is it going to cost to build and maintain an app?”

Answering this question related to the actual mobile application development cost can be difficult. It is because it also depends on the choices you make. You might have an upfront price, yet it cannot tell you everything. When it comes to finalizing mobile app development costs, there are too many variables at play. Besides, with traditional mobile app development platforms, there are hidden costs too.

But with some mobile app development platforms, like HokuApps, these questions can be answered easily. For that, you’ll have to contact our experts. However, for the time being, we will stick to explaining how traditional app development costing works and how cutting-edge low-code mobile app development platforms differs from the rest.

So, what really determines the cost range of mobile app development?

Read on!

What Factors Determine Traditional Mobile App Development Cost in 2021?

One of the easiest ways of calculating mobile app development costs is to put it through a formula.

Yes, you read it right.

To calculate the median cost of mobile app development, multiple mobile app development companies follow the quantitative method given below:

(App features × app development time) × Hourly rate charged = Actual cost

Mobile apps, however, come in a variety of shapes, colors, sizes, and functionalities. As a result, even though they look simple and easy-to-use, they are increasingly complex at the backend. There are actually a plethora of interrelated factors working, and each of them can influence traditional mobile app development cost.

Alternatively, some low-code mobile app development companies like HokuApps offer a fixed pricing for development of cross-platform mobile apps, which works way cheaper than the above formula.

Here’s a breakdown of the factors that can change the numbers in your app development cost:

Factor #1: Free Vs. Paid App – Your Choice

We understand that you get what a paid app means. You sell your in the app store and make money out of it.

But, what’s so impressive about a free app?

Let us enlighten you on this:

Paid apps work in a pretty straight-forward manner. Greater the number of downloads, more income you are going to generate. A free app, on the other hand, can help you market your offering and make it saleable. It can increase the value of your app, build a favorable brand identity and help you hit the targeted user-base whom you can choose to sell it to in future.

So, the revenue model is a bit indirect, yet quite promising.

In the paid app, your Return on Investment (ROI) would largely depend on the market positioning of the app. This, in turn, changes the mobile app development cost curve. Whereas, free apps are a good fit for the current competitive landscape of app market. The app development costs are comparatively low too.

Whatever you choose, should complement your business goals and app development budget.

Factor #2: Mobile OS Platforms

You can choose to build an app that runs on multiple devices and platforms: Android, iOS, the Web, or all of them. You can go for all of these, considering that you have a good understanding of where your target audience resides.

In case you need to pick one, it absolutely depends on what you are eyeing.

Apple generally uses stricter guidelines for its App Store. So, there will be more app security and quality along with high barrier to entry. However, the mobile app development cost might also be higher. Android, on the other hand, is considerably cheaper, offers an open platform, and can give you a wider customer base to tap into.

And of course, traditional mobile app development cost will vary as per the platform you choose. With HokuApps, pricing is all-inclusive, i.e., you get mobile apps for iOS, Android and the Web, created on an automated platform.

Factor #3: App Development Agency

There are basically three kinds of mobile app developers that you would very readily find on the internet:

Freelancers

There is no dearth of freelancers for app development. They are mostly preferred for offering low-cost app development. However, if someone promises you quality app at the cheapest price, flag them. Always remember that you get what you generally pay for.

Small Agencies

You can have a moderate team of 5-6 developers working on your app in a medium-sized mobile app development company. They are more expensive than freelancers but can deliver quality work at a lower price. You might still struggle to get skilled developers and timely delivery.

Agencies

Established companies like HokuApps come with loads of industry experience and platform knowledge. Hence, the technology platform here can always provide you with higher quality assurance at affordable pricing. If you want a balance between deadline, budget and app performance, long-standing custom mobile app development companies are the best bet.

Factor #4: App Design & Functionality

Apps are getting more dynamic day-by-day. In the app development scenario, there is just no limit on what can be produced. The two main aspects on which you can constantly innovate are app features and design elements.

Attractive app features like payment integration, geolocation, push notifications and messaging continue to dominate the app development market. Yet, it is difficult to categorize apps on the features available due to its ever-evolving nature.

The graphical element in your app might be eye-catchy, but the UI/UX design is everything.

A simple yet user-friendly interface can help your users easily interact with the app. This can make your app stand out from the crowd.

At HokuApps, we have often seen that clients often tend to overlook the investment of incorporating varied features and design elements into an app, which adds to the overall mobile app development cost. HokuApps, however, comes with a deep library of UI design mockups, created within suggested guidelines by Apple and Google. Businesses can make the choice of UI and we’ll integrate this into the app.

Factors #5: App Maintenance

A lot of our clients come and ask us –

“Do we have to keep paying even after the app is launched?”

What you have to keep in mind here that your app is much more than a thing in the store.

Your app is your key to reach multiple active users, who will download your app and keep coming back for more. So, for every app, there will be some ongoing app maintenance cost.

Here are the things which you need to do continue to maintain your app:

• OS upgrade and app maintenance.
• Time-to-time technical support is required to modify the app features and functions as per the user feedback.

As for the general estimation goes, app maintenance cost can amount up to 20% of the actual mobile app development cost. So, if your app development project is priced at $100,000, the app maintenance cost can range up to $20,000. However, automated mobile app development platforms like HokuApps charge a minimal monthly fee, which turns out cheaper than paying for each and every aspect of the entire lifecycle of the app.

HokuApps – An Affordable Mobile App Development Platform

You ask 5 different developers, and you are guaranteed to get greatly varied pricing models from each. There have been innumerable calculations on getting an average mobile app development cost. But, traditional mobile app development is not that easy and can be incredibly expensive too.

Yet a mobile app can be very much within your reach if you choose a custom and low-code Mobile App Development Platform (MADP) like HokuApps. Within days or weeks, your app would be absolutely ready to hit the market and fetch that desire results, and all for a affordable pricing that is all-inclusive (and no hidden costs).

The reason HokuApps offers such solutions is simple. 90% of the process is automated. Which means, the platform features deep libraries of pre-configured modules, a design studio and pre-built technology components, which can be integrated with pre-built connectors via a simple drag and drop process. The remaining 10% is hand-coding to customize the app according to the business’s unique organizational hierarchy. The solutions are thus, cross-platform, secure, affordable and offer stunning UI/UX. In comparison to traditional app development, the automated process increases app development speed by up to 10 times.

In addition, all mobile apps are automatically provisioned with enterprise administration backend to manage and administer the solution, a custom mobile and web view of all data and analysis, a communication framework and industry-best security features.

You can choose to build cross-platform apps with great design on our platform, at a faster pace and very affordable cost. With HokuApps, create, publish as well as maintain an app that your customers will love.

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Paper-centric business operations hinder the smooth flow of information. Employees need to manually connect to a wide array of disparate systems to collect information and depend on hand-written information for their daily tasks. Thus, bottle-necked business processes become a natural consequence.

Manual and paper-based operations offer an unproductive way of running businesses, which needs to be changed to cater to the sense of immediacy governing today’s digital world. Companies must embark on the journey of modernization by going beyond the traditional rigidity and embracing mobility. While there are several companies that wonder why mobile application development is important for business growth, some have already been able to integrate mobile devices into their business resource networks.

Mobile technologies can facilitate better communication and virtual connectedness while changing the way businesses source, acquire and distribute information. When the mobility of the workforce is taken to be the high-visibility goal, enterprises can successfully achieve user satisfaction, process efficiency, cross-department collaboration, and business agility.

Mobile Technologies and the Post-Modern Workforce

As per a recent global CEO survey conducted by PwC, mobility is seen to be the first priority of industrial companies, with 81% of CEOs approving that it plays an important part in their strategic decision-making processes. There is no denying that mobile technologies are reengineering corporate tasks, helping businesses to build an extensive network of technical experts, experienced professionals, and innovators who can collaborate and work together over the same corporate network.

While mobility can deliver solid efficiency gains for any company, digital transformation cannot occur by just incorporating mobile devices into the corporate environment. Providing employees with the ability to go through documents on mobile devices can be hardly termed as modern. If employees bring their own devices to the office and download any of their preferred apps to make their jobs easy, it does not offer any fruitful results to enterprises aspiring to modernization.

For employees to stay productive, mobile technology has been harnessed in a way that connects them to the business systems and important data, with or without their physical presence in the office. On one hand, employees should be empowered to perform office tasks anytime from anywhere – be it the office, or outdoors. This necessitates Business Process Automation (BPA) which many businesses shy away from after considering the prolonged timelines and the higher price of automation.

On the other hand, conventional mobile application development approaches demand higher investment and might take months or even years to complete. The tension over cost cannot be ruled out. Yet, clinging on to the traditional outdated processes poses a greater danger.

For efficient business processes that can provide a competitive edge, organizations need to automate their workflows with right and budget-friendly low-code mobile application development platforms like HokuApps. While the conventional mobile application development methods have become futile, there are new technologies emerging to offer solutions to challenges being posed by changing consumer demands. The HokuApps mobile application development platform can help businesses gain the efficiency driver they need to thrive in the market while reducing the organizational cost to a considerable extent.

Retaining the Competitive Edge

In order to stay competitive, many businesses have adopted user-friendly cloud-based business applications that can be accessed from anywhere, i.e., from a smart device to a web browser. Mobile application development initiatives for enterprise-grade apps need to address specific business goals and objectives. Rapid design and deployment of mobile apps is another important factor to consider, which can dramatically improve business efficiency. HokuApps’ mobile application development with transformative integration abilities can provide enterprises with:

• Empowered and highly productive workforce
• Robust, data-driven insights into the changes in business trends
• Streamlined business processes
• Better and strategic decision-making abilities

Organizations need to have a smart, strategic framework to proceed with mobile application development and achieve business growth. Instead of housing multiple disparate data systems for different departments, businesses can develop forms with intra-departmental databases, which provide more clarity on the tasks at hand and help employees to do their job more productively. In short, the mobile application development process for businesses has been perfectly aligned with user requirements and market demands, so that it can fetch the desired result.

Custom Enterprise Apps from HokuApps: The Change Enabler

Business apps are considered to be optimal when those incorporate the business systems users depend on, without requiring any complex coding. For multiple global companies, innovating on the app design and maintaining multiple versions of the mobile application development poses a major financial challenge. In addition, an upgrade might mean another tedious round of development iterations within the app, which is very time-consuming.

These organizations require advanced, yet affordable mobile application development tools that can provide them with responsive elements and help them develop the app or release updates rapidly for all devices and platforms. Low-code mobile application development platforms like HokuApps has simplified the app development process by automating the process to create mobile app solutions.

It does so on an automated platform that features deep libraries for pre-configured business modules, pre-connected technology components and a design studio with hundreds of designs. The apps are brought together using pre-built connectors via a drag and drop of all significant elements. Post automation, the app is customized at a business level to suit the business’s unique organizational hierarchy. These features help businesses stay steps ahead of traditional app development platforms developed mobile apps which are created from scratch.

Additionally, with rapid mobile application development, paper-based traditional business processes can be transformed into digitized and highly interactive systems, which strengthens the reporting and managing capabilities of a business while increasing its overall operational efficiency. With fully-functional business apps in place, managers can keep a track on the progress of all tasks from a central enterprise administration backend and dashboards with a granular reporting engine, collaborate on a communication framework for chat and notifications, and keep app and data safe with robust security features.

HokuApps – Towards an App-Driven Economy

Technology-enabled business automation has immense benefits in achieving organizational transformation and driving business efficiency. In fact, custom mobile application development has some hidden benefits as well. Well-developed, custom mobile application development platforms and robust system integration tools can aid the workforce in participating in the app creation process and deliver fast easy and highly affordable business-level apps. In a recent study conducted by Cognizant, 50% of the respondents stated that they expect automation to improve their existing business systems and processes within a time span of 3-5 years.

Organizations require a smart mobile application development platform that creates better and market-appropriate apps in a faster and more efficient manner. HokuApps helps businesses achieve faster digital transformation through low-code mobile application development, providing enterprise-grade apps that are reliable, affordable, secure and scalable.

With HokuApps as their app development partner, businesses can take proactive approaches to business management rather than depending on reactionary strategies. In order to gain more insights into how you can modernize your business workflows in days or weeks instead of months, visit www.hokuapps.com.

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If you include both UI and UX effectively in your app, it would be quite flawless and interactive with a simplified interface, which can earn your business a wider and loyal customer base. Although the tools and skill sets required for both UX and UI involve the same knowledge base for the developers, they are basically two separate disciplines in the mobile app design framework.

The difference between UX and UI actually lies with how the users approach an app. The modern users not only seek attractive app looks (which is UI), they also prefer easy navigation channels to browse the app with fewer touches (the UX). Hence, the UX designer is mainly concerned with how well the app performs across all mobile devices and platforms, whereas the UI designer is responsible for building a compelling app interface which makes user interaction with the app easy and simple (colors, icons etc.).

When combined together, the UI/UX of mobile app design can make a business solution intuitive and be engaging at the same time for the customers. Before you dive into the essentials of UI/UX design in mobile app development, let’s quickly get into the basics for each of them.

Here’s the HokuApps pick of the most essential UI/UX design elements:

What is User Interface (UI) Design?

By the word “interface,” we generally think of the aesthetic elements of an app, such as the screen size and color combinations. However, it means much more in the field of mobile app design. UI is more concerned with the overall presentation of the app – how good it looks and how well it performs while interacting with the customers. To make the flow of the app smooth, UI designers often concentrate on implementing simple navigations and call-to-action buttons.

The use of UI in mobile app design requires a lot of market experience from the developers, as they need to build the interface in such a way that it becomes easy for the users to instinctively figure out the app functions and features.

What is User Experience (UX) Design?

UX, as the name suggests, functions to enhance the overall app experience of the users, by taking into account how the user is likely to interact with the app. UX in mobile app design needs to be concerned with the personal feelings of the user at every stage of the app development.

UX designer constantly gathers feedback from testers before and during the app development and modify the app features as per the user feedback, after the app has been developed. The overall intention of UX in mobile app design is to improve interactivity and accessibility of the app, by keeping it simple as well as user-friendly.

The UI designer has to constantly work on how the product appears with all visual elements incorporated into it. On the other hand, the UX designers have to engage in competitive analysis and understand your business processes and app requirements, to build an app which is unique as well as logic driven.

Aspects of UX/UI in Mobile App Design that Work

There is a need to strike the right balance between UI and UX so as to line up organic traffic on your business app and keep them hooked with engaging app experience. With that being said, there is a classic debate on what it actually takes to make an optimal mobile app design – while some support appealing interface, others, like Apple, keep app simplicity over anything else.

Undecided about what to follow?

Here are some of the crucial aspects of effective UX/UI design, which will help you to build a flexible and simple app that provides top-notch user experience:

Use Standardized Elements

Using common, conventional mobile app design elements like buttons, colors, icons, and symbols help users approach the app with a familiar feel. Generating such experience of familiarity is important because it helps the user to spend a long time on the app, which opens up the possibilities of deriving maximum benefit out of that usage for you.

Keep it Simple

Apart from incorporating standardized design features, make sure that all other app elements, textual or visual, are simple and easy to understand. If your users need a manual to understand how the app works, your UI/UX design is at fault. The easy and intuitive interface makes the users confident about the functionality of the app and helps them use it without any confusion.

Prioritize Speed

Speed is a very important aspect of any mobile app design because it helps businesses to convey the message that they value the time of their users. The longer an app takes to load, the lesser would be the number of its users. Direct your mobile application developers to create stunning yet efficient mobile app design, which takes only seconds to load.

Besides, if you need to promote any latest offering or inform the users about any ongoing app process, it is best to send those messages through notifications. This method not only saves the time of consumers but also helps you reach the targeted base that much faster.

Make It Look Natural

Ask your mobile app development company to use effective UI tools like toggles and buttons for creating a natural-looking app. The use of gradient and shadows are also very popular tools among mobile application developers in making eye-catching 3D forms and buttons within any mobile app.

Keep It User-Centric

Any user-centric mobile app design encompasses a lot of vital app features and elements, including the touchscreen. As per the tech giant Apple, providing 44-pixel square of space to a button makes it easy for the user to tap into it. Keeping the recommended finger size for tapping aids users to click on the particular button without pressing another one mistakenly with it. It also makes toggling an easy process for them.

Make Apps with Best UX/UI Design with HokuApps

Unlike most mobile application development companies, we understand that your users’ experience is determined by both content and visuals incorporated into the app. Thus, we shift away from the ineffective method of providing only attractive mobile app design and work along with you to develop ease of use, which can make app interaction a very pleasurable experience for the users.

Platforms such as HokuApps offer MADP are designed while keeping these factors in mind. Employing a comprehensive tool like HokuApps MADP allows a low-code approach to app design and development. The platform features a deep library – a design studio – with hundreds of pre-built designs. Designs cater to the guidelines as suggested by Google and Apple so that the apps fit into the design logic of both OS platforms.

The reusability of resources such as pre-built business modules, pre-built technology components and pre-built connectors reduce the chances of budget extension while increasing 100% custom app deployment by 10 times. A stark differentiation to traditional mobile app development platform, where each app is developed and designed from scratch.

At HokuApps, our experienced teams focus more on keeping the mobile app design uniform across both platforms so that users don’t have to struggle to comprehend the patterns of the usage of the app. By combining aesthetics and responsiveness, we can help you build future-oriented apps, which provide a simple yet motivating platform for the users to enjoy and work on.

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Yet, there is no assurance that they will eventually take up your deal. Your loss is a direct gain for your competitors. But did you know that you can use mobile apps to reach out to your customers more efficiently?

There is no denying that our society is heavily mobile-dependent now. They like to use their mobile phone for everything, from grocery shopping to buying movie tickets. The increasing use of mobile technology has reshaped the business operations of various industries and real estate is no exception.

If you are thinking “I have a mobile-friendly website, and this should be enough,” you need to think again.

With the growing popularity of smartphone and increasing reliance on custom mobile application development processes, customers seek convenient mobile apps for real estate from which they can get a personalized view of the property at any time and from any device. So, if you have not considered real estate mobile app development for your business yet, you are at the risk of losing more leads to your rivals.

Why Invest in Mobile Apps for Real Estate?

The reason is quite straightforward. Prospective buyers and homeowners in real estate are seeking the ability to review relevant property data from any smart device. More than desktops and PCs, real estate customers are increasingly found doing their research on smart devices like mobile phones, and tablets; making constant searches on the internet to make an information-driven purchase decision. Be it buying or selling a property, or about home renovation, they like to use mobile apps to access all the required information on the go.

The real estate sector has been slow to adapt to the new and emerging mobile technology trends. As per the 2017 PWC report on the emerging trends of real estate, if realtors cannot strategically use the existing technology preferred by customers, it might result in the loss of potential opportunities. Similarly, statistics tell us that real estate businesses are in favor of real estate mobile app development, globally.

Here are a few from the 2015 report of the National Association of the Realtors (USA), which will change the way you think about real estate mobile app development:

• Out of 80% of the interested buyers for properties in the US, 70% now prefer to look for good real estate agents on mobile apps.
• There is a growing demand for real estate mobile app development, and brokers are now willing to pay huge amounts for mobile technology.

With mobile technology growing by leaps and bounds, real estate mobile app development can help you attract more customers and provide them with lucrative deals that they just can’t miss. Having a user-friendly mobile app for real estate businesses can make your market reputation skyrocket and improve your customer interaction, with a positive impact on your ROI.

How Is Real Estate Mobile App Development a Profitable Idea?

When you choose a revolutionary Mobile Application Development Platform like HokuApps, the developed app will be the best marketing representative that you will need for your business. While developing mobile apps for real estate, we advise our clients to integrate excellent user experience with convenient and flexible mobile tools and features. The idea is to attract, engage, and retain customers through custom mobile application development, which can put your real estate venture at their fingertips.

Now let’s see how real estate mobile app development can enhance your business prospects in the long run:

Improved Customer Experience Can Create Robust Business Identity

With real estate mobile app development initiatives, you can ensure that customers don’t need to go outside their home to check a property site. Ask your mobile app development company to make the property listing as per locations. Ensure that all the relevant information, such as price, site images, and area, can be easily accessed from the mobile app. Thus, customers can enter location and price range on the mobile app, and quickly view the relevant property listings. In addition, you can expect to reach out to the targeted customer base faster with your own real estate mobile app development, as the searches are often refined and need-specific. This way, you don’t need to deal with almost everyone who comes to inquire about your property.

Moreover, HokuApps’ real estate apps feature enterprise administration backend that provides a web and mobile view of data and analytics via a dashboard armed with a granular reporting engine. This allows businesses to fully-understand what and where your customers are looking for, and plot your strategy based on this information.

Keep in mind that customers remember only the brand that offers them something unique. Providing personalized experience to customers through real estate mobile app development can help you build a powerful identity in the market, and make your business stand out from the crowd.

A Faster Sales Process Can Help You Seal More Deals

Don’t think it is adequate if you have an engaging and easy-to-use mobile app for real estate business. You have to develop the app strategically to make sure both your business objectives are in perfect alignment with your customer interest. With real estate mobile app development, you can offer special offers and attractive deals to your customers at no extra cost. Push notifications also offer a great way to keep customers updated on the latest deals, projects, and property listing.

Another important aspect of any real estate business is the calculation of the EMIs. Make mortgage and loan calculator an integral part of real estate mobile app development, which can give you chance to attract more buyers when you put the simplest of tools as a part of your app. Instead of loan calculation on your phone (calculator app) that only slows down the transaction process, prospective buyers can easily choose any property by calculating their payments on the real estate mobile app itself and instantly get in touch with you as soon as they are interested.

Using New Technology Can Enhance Your Real Estate Prospect

Augmented Reality (AR) is the latest technological interest in several mobile app development companies. As AR has the ability to overlay a virtual image on the physical world itself, it can be of great use in the real estate mobile app development process. For example, you are dealing with a customer who wants to renovate a particular property site. Instead of coming up with a 2D renovation plan, you can take them on a virtual tour of what the renovated site would look like by incorporating AR into your real estate mobile app development. If the customers want, they can customize their tour experience and judge the presented plan by making various visual alterations.

The real estate mobile app can also provide customers with detailed specifications about the renovation and property tools in real-time. Including advanced features in real estate mobile app development, which can provide a virtual feel of the proposed future to customers, can stimulate more property visits and translate into better conversion rates.

Stay Current with HokuApps Real Estate Mobile Apps

If you are thinking about creating your own mobile apps for real estate business, you need to find an app development company that has a creative approach and profound experience of how the industry has changed over the years. Here, at HokuApps, we understand that your real estate mobile app needs to embrace the latest technologies and tools to adapt quickly to the market and your target audience’s demands.

HokuApps Mobile Application Development Platform helps you build tailor-made, dedicated and flexible apps at 10x speed than the traditional app development models which take to hand-coding each app from scratch. Our apps can be built and deployed rapidly on an automated platform which offers seamless integration with your existing business workflows. Our automated platform features pre-configured business modules, pre-built technology components, and a design studio with a range of UI options, all of which are integrated into a working app using pre-built connectors via a drag and drop approach. This app is then customised to suit your unique requirements.

HokuApps develops and deploys fully-customized real estate mobile apps for Android, iOS and the Web automatically on the automated platform. If you choose to partner with HokuApps, you will never lose a prospective buyer again.

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In the last few years, there has been a surge in the number of mobile devices at workplaces. Once mobile application development entered the enterprise scenario, it ushered in a new era of collaboration, communication and businesses efficiencies. The narrowing distinctions between consumer expectations and enterprise applications were the direct outcome of consumer-originated technologies and their impact on enterprises. The rate of adoption of such consumer-originated technologies have also increased considerably over the years and enterprises are striving to facilitate greater user adoption for long-term success.

Organizations are doing away with the utilitarian approach altogether and moving to a model that focuses on similar standards evident in consumer products. Therefore, on the business front, enterprise mobility became the key strategy that empowered businesses to effectively manage employee mobility and meet security, agility, productivity, and other miscellaneous demands.

Consumers, too, were consistently searching for engaging enterprise applications that go beyond the utilitarian experience. Today consumers are turning to mobile devices to perform tasks and therefore, expect seamless integration across applications due to the technology components-driven ecosystem in the consumer world. Businesses using multiple devices also seek smooth integration of data regardless of the restrictions imposed by legacy and disparate systems.

Some Key Challenges in Enterprise Mobile Application Development

Organizations face several challenges when developing enterprise mobile applications. Listed below are some key challenges and their solutions when developing enterprise mobile apps:

Gaps in Expertise: Resource restraint poses one of the biggest challenges that plague organizations. Mobile requires a specific set of competencies as compared to web and other traditional IT systems. Most organizations lack in-house resources and therefore, need to source talent externally to fill this resource gap. Sourcing talent and simultaneously maintaining a mobile application development team can be both problematic as well as cost-intensive. As a result, recruiting, maintaining and retaining high-end enterprise mobile application development resources have become a critical challenge for the organizations.

To overcome this challenge, some technology platforms have invested in low-code models of app development. As per this model, the platform comes equipped with deep libraries of pre-connected technology components, pre-configured business modules, pre-built connectors and a design studio with hundreds of UI designs. This approach to enterprise mobile application development has proven to be successful and is recommended by industry experts as solutions are reliable, affordable, provides faster app development, and most importantly, has proven to be a brilliant solution to the skills gap.

Proper Back-End Integration: In the beginning, user interface (UI) was a major challenge facing enterprise mobile application development team. However, back-end integration took things a step further – it proved to be another crucial challenge faced by a mobile application development team. Therefore, it was less about developing a compelling UI and more about connecting and integrating mobile applications with backend resources, public APIs (since the past few years witnessed a rapidly evolving API space and a proliferation in the total number of APIs) and other disparate systems.

Over the years, however, low-code enterprise mobile application development platforms have become proficient in handling mobilization challenges with inbuilt enterprise administration backend which includes a granular reporting engine and dashboards, fully customizable to a business’s hierarchy.

Security Concerns: Any security flaw can affect all the functional systems in an organization. Therefore, it is imperative that enterprises identify security lapses and implement security processes when developing enterprise mobile apps.

Low-code platforms like HokuApps offers a robust and on-demand scalability infrastructure with best in class enterprise security features. Solutions built on the platform automatically subscribe to these security features.

Why Do Enterprises Need Mobile App Maintenance?

Mobile apps are susceptible to the ill effects of regular changes occurring on mobile application development platform, enabled by innovation and progressions unlike other web or desktop applications. For example, new gadgets/trends turn out every year, causing changes in the essential frameworks that support applications. Similarly, the language structure that developers use to create applications is also prone to constant changes. Applications are also likely to be affected by security changes every year. Therefore, active maintenance of enterprise mobile application development is crucial; else it runs the risk of failing to adjust to progressions while the competition stays one step ahead.

Three Important Security Processes to Follow

1) It is imperative that organizations install SSL certificates which are small data files. Once installed, these files digitally bind a cryptographic key to an organization’s details. These data files will signal the application’s server to securely connect to the browser.

2) It is crucial that organizations encrypt their mobile devices because lack of security measures can prove to be detrimental to an organization and its stakeholders. Once mobile devices are connected to desktop computers, the data stored on the mobile devices becomes readable on the desktop and users have easy access to the files. Therefore, encryption safeguards mobile devices against security threats and only intended users are allowed to copy the encrypted files to and from their devices. Users need to enter a PIN or a password after which the person connecting to the mobile device is able to access the data.

3) Malware present critical security risks for enterprise mobile application development. Users with malicious intent often create realistic-looking copies of legitimate enterprise mobile apps to dupe users who are downloading them. Once downloaded, this malware can severely compromise the enterprise mobile app. Right from rooting mobile devices to stealing information and bombarding the user with unwanted pop-ups and advertisements and compromising and exploiting the user data, malware can prove to be destructive in more than one way.

Mobile Application Development Maintenance – the HokuApps Approach

The HokuApps mobile application development platform (MADP) offers unique ways in which enterprises can build technology solutions. With the HokuApps mobile application development platform, enterprises can rapidly build tailor-made enterprise apps with the help of on-demand business modules and integrated technology components. These customized technology solutions are created and deployed at 10x speed in comparison to traditional mobile app development, which creates apps from scratch.

The HokuApps mobile application development platform offers native-like mobile app experiences, allows businesses to connect with hundreds of front-end and back-end tools, and deploy flawless cloud-based apps. Lastly, the HokuApps mobile application development platform also safeguards critical data behind enterprise-grade firewalls.

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